New Wacom Intuos pro not recognized

[Odysseas]

Greetings,
I am a new linux user, as I installed kubuntu a couple of months ago. I am figuring out this new environment little by little, and at the moment I am stuck in this obstacle:
I just got an Intuos pro, which is the new Wacom tablet series. My older Intuos 3 was working great, and was immediately recognized by the system.

This one is not recognized. I scanned several forums and found out that linux requires additional drivers in order to see the tablet.
LinuxWacom site - the ones responsible for the drivers release - has some step by step tutorials on how to install them.
I also had a look at ubuntu forums, where other people had also posted similar issues, but I was not able to reach a conclusion or make any visible progress.

What I did until now (following the instructions from LinuxWacom):
- Downloaded the drivers from LinuxWacom
- Unzipped and ran ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
- Updated xserver with apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev

I stuck at this point:
(From the instructions
Follow the instructions provided at the end of the build to copy the kernel modules to your system's module directory. USB tablets rely on the wacom.ko kernel module, while most touchscreens will use the wacom_w8001.ko module:
cp ./<kernel version>/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
cp ./<kernel version>/wacom_w8001.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/touchscreen/

I have no idea what to do here, or even if I am going at a completely wrong direction!


If I can provide you with more information, let me know what would it be.
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, however any help will be appreciated: even if only to point me at the right direction or forum!

Thanks,
Odysseas

[oshunluvr]

It looks like they want you to copy wacom.ko from wherever their install built it to the /lib/modules locations for the drivers.

They are assuming you would do the commands in order, so the cp command assumes you are in that directory. You would need to use sudo also, so the commands might look like:

sudo cp ./`uname -r`/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
sudo cp ./`uname -r`/wacom_w8001.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/touchscreen/

The above assumes the driver was built on the same kernel you're using. Try these two commands and post the results:

sudo updatedb
sudo locate wacom.ko

[oshunluvr]

BTW, until this new device is put into the kernel, you will have to do this at each kernel update so you should be prepared for that.

Some advice for a new user: Many companies have little or no Linux support. Always research your hardware before buying to make sure it will work. This is especially true of new hardware.

I am actually very surprised Wacom is so on the ball with the drivers. Hopefully, their drivers will be incorporated into the kernel soon.

[oshunluvr]

Once you get it working try out: kde-tablet-config

[Odysseas]

Hi oshunluvr, thanks for the quick response!

Here is what I got with
sudo updatedb
and then
sudo locate wacom.ko

odysseas@odysseas-Inspiron-7720:~$ sudo updatedb
[sudo] password for odysseas: 
odysseas@odysseas-Inspiron-7720:~$ sudo locate wacom.ko/lib/modules/3.11.0-12-generic/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-wacom.ko
/lib/modules/3.11.0-12-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
/lib/modules/3.11.0-13-generic/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-wacom.ko
/lib/modules/3.11.0-13-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
/lib/modules/3.8.0-32-generic/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-wacom.ko
/lib/modules/3.8.0-32-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
odysseas@odysseas-Inspiron-7720:~$

And this is exactly where I stuck: if I understand this well, "wacom.ko" is just located in my lib/modules directories. What am I supposed to copy? The driver installation does not seem to have created any new wacom.ko file.


Thanks for the tip, I really had no choice over this one because it was a competition gift. I will definitely keep it in mind for future hardware updates though!

These new wacom series implement multitouch features, and maybe this is why the old drivers don't work anymore. By the way, I did not uninstall the old drivers. Should I do that?

[oshunluvr]

Ah yes - sorry I assumed you made the purchase on your own.

I did a little looking around and it seems a kernel patch has already been submitted for the Wacom Intuos Pro series, so thats good news. You current drivers may work. Try this

lsmod | grep wacom

and see if anything pops up. If not, try

sudo modprobe wacom

and report what happens. I'll be offline for awhile, but I'll check back in a couple hours.

[Odysseas]

That's is good news indeed!

Here is what I got with
sudo modprobe wacom:

odysseas@odysseas-Inspiron-7720:~$ lsmod | grep wacom
wacom 62341 0

No worries, I will check it back tomorrow - it is quite late at this side of the planet!
Thanks a lot

[oshunluvr]

So some version of the wacom driver is being loaded. I've not messed with this particular piece of hardware before, but I would recommend completely removing all currently installed wacom drivers, and then re-installing the new ones you downloaded exactly as they describe. This will avoid a possible conflict. You currently have three different kernel versions installed.

What kernel are you booting to? I assume 3.11.0-13 as it's the newest, but you can check with:

uname -r

[Odysseas]

Hi again oshunluvr,
thanks a lot for your reply!

So I checked and the kernel I am booting to is 3.11.0-13, as you assumed.
To remove the wacom drivers
-I uninstalled all the relevant packages from package manager and
-Did a sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-input-wacom in the terminal

I do not know what else I should do to remove the wacom.ko from the kernel directories, or any other files installed by the wacom drivers. Any suggestions here?

After this, I tried once again to install the new drivers and followed the instructions from linuxwacom in this order:

1)
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...le=Input-wacom

Still no idea what to do with the copy command here. Also, wacom.ko files are still under 3.11 and 3.8 kernel directories.

2)
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...ing_the_driver


Here is what I got with "./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64" and "make", "make install"

odysseas@odysseas-Inspiron-7720:~$ cd /home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/
odysseas@odysseas-Inspiron-7720:~/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/missing: Unknown '--is-lightweight' option
Try '/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
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odysseas@odysseas-Inspiron-7720:~/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1$ sudo make
[sudo] password for odysseas: 
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1'
Making all in conf
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/conf'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/conf'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/doc'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/src'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/src'
Making all in man
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/man'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/man'
Making all in include
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/include'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/include'
Making all in tools
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/tools'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/tools'
Making all in test
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/test'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/test'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1'
odysseas@odysseas-Inspiron-7720:~/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1$ sudo make install
Making install in conf
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/conf'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/conf'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 50-wacom.conf '/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/conf'
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Making install in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/doc'
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Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/src'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input'
 /bin/bash ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   wacom_drv.la '/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/wacom_drv.so /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/wacom_drv.lai /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.la
libtool: finish: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input
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Libraries have been installed in:
   /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
   - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
     during execution
   - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
     during linking
   - use the `-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
   - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'

See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/src'
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Making install in man
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/man'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/man'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/share/man/man4'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 wacom.4 '/usr/share/man/man4'
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/share/man/man1'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 xsetwacom.1 '/usr/share/man/man1'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/man'
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Making install in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/include'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/include'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/include/xorg'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 Xwacom.h wacom-properties.h isdv4.h wacom-util.h '/usr/include/xorg'
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Making install in tools
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/tools'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/tools'
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/bin'
  /bin/bash ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c xsetwacom isdv4-serial-debugger '/usr/bin'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c xsetwacom /usr/bin/xsetwacom
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c isdv4-serial-debugger /usr/bin/isdv4-serial-debugger
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
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Making install in test
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/test'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1/test'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
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make[1]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/lib64/pkgconfig'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 xorg-wacom.pc '/usr/lib64/pkgconfig'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/odysseas/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1'
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odysseas@odysseas-Inspiron-7720:~/Downloads/wacom-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.22.1$

3)
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...=Configuring_X

Should I do something here?


Please let me know if I can provide you with something else. Thank you for your help so far!

[oshunluvr]

Those directions aren't written for us noob's. It appears to me they want you to copy the drivers to

/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/touchscreen/wacom_w8001.ko

I think they should be under /usr/lib64 somewhere or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

[Odysseas]

Hi, thanks again for the reply!

I finally found out what was missing: There are actually 2 drivers one has to install in order to make this work:
First is the usb kernel driver/module: linuxwacom input-wacom
And then the x driver xf86-input-wacom

The first one obviously contains the kernel drivers, and at the end of the build the wacom.ko is produced. Then one can copy them to the kernel/drivers/input/tablet directory.

So now the tablet is working fine, even the touch feature is recognized!
It was very easy to do, but very confusing because of the drivers name (both are input-wacom). It leads you to believe that they are the different versions of the same driver, but in fact they are two different things and one needs to install them both!

My only problem now is that I cannot configure the touch-ring and buttons under the graphic tablet configuration (version 2.0)
The tab is missing altogether, so I just have "General", "Tablet", "Stylus" and "Touch".
I also cannot save any profile and every time I open the configuration or try to save a profile I get an error "Profile default does not exist".

I posted a bug report at kde, if anybody has an idea for a possible workaround, please let me know!

For anyone else trying to install new wacom devices: Here is a very useful HOW TO, frequently updated
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=110408